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Tecnológico de Monterrey
Image:Escudito-itesm.png
Established 1943
Type Private
President Rafael Rangel Sostmann
Faculty 1628 full-time
Students 95,777 (2005)
Undergraduates 90,701
Postgraduates 5,076 (326 medical)
Location Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Campus Urban
143 acres (579,000 m²)
Atletics 100 varsity teams
Colors Dark blue, and white
Nickname Borregos Salvajes Image:Borregos.jpg
Website www.itesm.mx

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey or ITESM) is a private university in Mexico founded in 1943. ITESM is also known as Monterrey Tech, Tecnológico, Tec de Monterrey, or simply Tec, reflecting its origins as a technological university. In addition to the main campus in Monterrey, Mexico, the ITESM network currently includes over 30 regional campuses throughout the country.

It consists of academic department rather than faculties. Both undergraduate and graduate studies are available. Tecnológico de Monterrey is also responsible for the PrepaTEC (Preparatory School), and Universidad Virtual (Virtual University).

From its beginnings, ITESM has expressed a strong support for research and development. This orientation guided ITESM to become the first university of Latin America in connecting to the Internet back in 1986. In addition to hosting Mexico's first connection to Internet, ITESM was also charged with managing the country's domain registry (mx).

Although ITESM is a relatively new institution, it awards the largest number of engineering degrees after the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is the most important private school in Mexico and Latin America.

In 2006, the Wall Street Journal ranked the institute's business school as the #7 International Business School worldwide, ahead of MIT, Haas, Wharton and Stanford, and just behind Columbia University and Thunderbird<ref>Wall Street Journal recruiter's scoreboard</ref>.

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[edit] History

The ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) was founded in 1943 by a group of businessmen, headed by Eugenio Garza Sada, in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 1945, the Institute adopts "The Ram" as mascot.

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In 1947, the Monterrey Campus is inaugurated (previously, classes were held in several buildings in downtown Monterrey).

In 1967 a new campus in Guaymas is inaugurated, becoming the first Campus outside of the city of Monterrey.

In 1968, the first Ph.D. degree is granted, in chemistry with specialty in organic chemistry.

In 1969, the first Latin American University with a formal computer science degree.

In 1973, two new campus are inaugurated. One in Mexico City, and another in Ciudad Obregón.

In 1975, Prepa Tec Campus Eugenio Garza Sada is founded.

In 1976, State of Mexico Campus is founded in a suburb north of Mexico city.

In 1978, the Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine is founded, next to the San Jose Hospital, in Monterrey.

In 1980, the ITESM introduces in Mexico personal computers as a tool for learning.

In 1987, the ITESM gets hooked to Bitnet.

In 1989, a new icon for the city of Monterrey is inaugurated at the Campus Monterrey: The Cetec.

In 1990, Mexico City Campus is founded.

In 1995, the ITESM opens its Business Graduate School called Escuela de Graduados en Administracion y Direccion de Empresas, by its initials EGADE.

In 1996, Prepa Tec Campus Santa Catarina is founded

In 1997, the Virtual University is founded.

In 1998, President Ernesto Zedillo honors the 3rd largest campus, ITESM-CEM (Greater Mexico City), with the "National Quality award."

In 2003, President Vicente Fox inaugurates in Monterrey the Center for Advanced International Learning (CIAP), at Campus Monterrey, and celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Institute. In Puebla, President Fox inaugurates the latest of the 33 campuses of the system: Campus Puebla.

In 2005, President Vicente Fox inaugurates in Mexico City the Center for Business and Technologic Development (CEDETEC), at Campus Mexico City.

In 2006 Campus Guaymas (the first Campus outside of the city of Monterrey)switches over to the Tec Milenio University format.

[edit] Education Model

The ITESM education model is called the "Redesigned Education Model", because it redesigns traditional didactic models around technology, and certain attitudes and values shaped around entrepreneurship, knowledge, culture, resourcefulness, and social consciousness.

Part of the education redesign includes having certain courses taken partly online or exclusively online. It also includes field work, such as practices in the private initiative. Learning foreign languages is a must, especially English. In 2003 the first course in French was given.

Every five years, during a satellite broadcast to all campuses, the institute addresses the student, staff, and administrative bodies. In this broadcast, the institute revisits its goals, evaluates its achievements and shortcomings, and sets the next goals with particular emphasis on the needs of an increasingly global society.

In addition to being one of the first serious users of Internet in Mexico (1980s), ITESM was also a pioneer in the use of wireless technologies among Mexican enterprises. These technologies have been extensively used to facilitate online education throughout the campuses.

[edit] Monterrey Campus

The Monterrey Campus is the site of the ITESM at Monterrey, Mexico. The campus extends over 125 acres (0.5 km²), and includes 8 buildings with classrooms, a building for the library, 5 administrative buildings, 5 cafeterias, several habitation buildings for students, gymnasiums, a theatre, and a World-Class stadium (also used by the professional soccer team Rayados de Monterrey).

The buildings are separated by beautiful gardens, populated with over 20 species of birds (ducks and peacocks being the most interesting ones), and some deer (which inhabit the gardens in front of Aulas 4).

Its Medical School graduates have attained the best results in the Mexican National Residence Qualification Assessment for many years. Graduates from its Chemical and Civil Engineering programs have consistently achieved the best results in the National Undergraduate Assessment Test (CENEVAL) since its inception.

[edit] Aulas (Classroom Buildings)

  • Aulas 1 - Where most chemistry labs are located
  • Aulas 2 - Holds the School of Architecture, the offices for the Humanities and Physics Departments, and the offices for the ISC and ITC majors.
  • Aulas 3 - Holds some administrative offices, and the Math Department
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  • Aulas 4 - Holds the Chemical engineering, Mechanical and Electrical engineering laboratories, as well as the Industrial Design workshops.
  • Aulas 5 - Holds the Center for Biotechnology
  • Aulas 6 - Has several small auditoriums, located in each of the floors, as well as hosting part of the "Virtual University".
  • Aulas 7 - Where workshops for Industrial Design, Mechatronics and Computer Science are located.
  • The CIAP (Aulas 8). Here, the radio station of the Campus is located, the soon to be launched student newspaper ¨El Borrego¨ is edited (where the cultural magazine "Mientras Tanto" used to be produced), and it also has a Cinema Studio. The Center for Communication studies is also here, as well as a business incubator, and the Business Landscaping Institute

The radio station's frequency of the campus is 94.9 FM, and though it is heard all over the city of Monterrey, it is produced exclusively by students. It can be accessed online here.

[edit] Administrative Buildings

  • The CETEC, Center of Technology Applied to manufacturing, is a major landmark of the campus, and where the computer science labs are located. It is sometimes jokingly referred to as the "Servilletero" ("Napkin holder"), because of its shape. Next to this building, the manufacture laboratories are located, here, several Mechatronics projects are held.
  • The CEDES, Center for Sustainable Development, the Total Quality and Environmental Quality Centers, among others, are located in this building. It also holds the broadcasting studios for Tec de Monterrey´s Virtual University.
  • The Main Building, which serves as the rector's tower or "Rectoria", houses the Tec system's administration. This was the original location of the Library.
  • The Library
  • The Student Center. Where student congresses and events are held. Conferences, congresses and fairs are held here, and student organizations are given a place to work. Famous visitors include the Crown prince of Spain and his wife, in their first visit to an American University, former Spain Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the CEO of Cemex, Lorenzo Zambrano, the CEO of Grupo IMSA, Eugenio Clariond, among many others.

[edit] Cafeterias

  • Centrales, located at the center of the Centrales building, at the right is a residence hall for students who participate in the football team. Left are administrative offices, including the treasury.
  • Jubileo, located in the basement of the Student Center.
  • El Borrego (The Ram), located between the Student Center, and Aulas 3.
  • La Carreta, (The Wagon), located between Aulas 1 and Aulas 2.
  • Comedores de Estudiantes, located next to Student Residence Hall Buildings.

The cafeterias serve meals for students, and the food is typically cheaper than American food. The quality of the food is controlled by the department of food services, which is always innovating a way of making food taste better and be more nutritious. One particular dish that has become part of the "gastronomic culture" of the campus is Chilaquiles – it is prepared in a special way at ITESM cafeterias (And in a different way in each cafeteria), and consists of fried tortilla chips drowned in tomato sauce, with beans and cheese.

[edit] Auditorium

The Auditorio Luis Elizondo is one of the largest theatres in the city, seating 1800. It holds many cultural activities throughout the year, including student plays.

[edit] Stadium

Tec's stadium, or Estadio Tecnológico, is home to Tec's football team, the Borregos (the Rams), and the professional soccer team the Monterrey Rayados. The Rayados, whose main rival is the UANL Tigres, have no affiliation with the University; they just rent the Stadium.

All of the Tec de Monterrey sports teams (at all the campuses) have the Borrego mascot. The Monterrey Campus football team has recently been national champions several times. Interestingly, five of the ten teams in the Mexican College Football League, the ONEFA, are from different ITESM campuses. Accordingly, it has been a long time since a non-Borrego team has been champion. The strongest ITESM teams are Campus Monterrey (who play at this stadium), Campus Mexico State, and Campus Toluca.

The Tec Stadium was a venue for the Mexico '86 World Cup, the highest competition in World-Wide Professional Soccer. Also, the famous rock and roll band U2 gave a concert there, on February 12 2006.

[edit] Mexico City Campus

Mexico City Campus was founded as a Graduate Business School in 1973 but in 1990 began providing undergraduate engineering education in its current Tlalpan Campus Its latest building, the Centro de Desarrollo Tecnológico CEDETEC-CEMEX, was inaugurated by President Vicente Fox in 2005. Tony Blair visited Mexico City Campus a few weeks before the September 11 attacks, where he spoke about the challenges posed by globalization.

[edit] Academia

The ITESM has over 7,600 professors and instructors, of which 99% hold a degree superior to the one they are teaching. Research is one of the priorities of the ITESM, and many important Mexican researchers find their home here.

[edit] Accreditations and acknowledgments

Several academic programs of the Tecnológico de Monterrey are accredited in México by the following organizations recognized by the Council for the Accreditation of Higher Education (COPAES):

  • Association for the Accreditation and Certification of Social Sciences (ACCECISO)
  • Council for the Accreditation of Accounting and Administration Studies (CACECA)
  • Council for the Accreditation of Engineering Studies (CACEI)
  • Council for the Accreditation of Psychology Education and Research (CNEIP)
  • Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Architecture Studies (COMAEA)
  • Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Medical Education (COMAEM)
  • National Council for the Accreditation of Informatics and Computation (CONAIC)

Furthermore, the Tecnológico de Monterrey has programs which are accredited or recognized by the following international organizations:

  • The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)
  • Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
  • Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
  • Latin American Council for the Accreditation of Journalism Education (CLAEP)
  • The European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS)

Andrew Heiskell Award For Innovation in International Education, 2004 by the Institute of International Education <ref>Institute of International Education webpage</ref>

[edit] Worldwide presence

This Institute has more than 33 campuses nationwide, and 19 receptor centers, located all over Mexico, with nine offices located throughout the Americas (including Guayaquil, Quito, Santiago, Chile, Panama City) and Europe.

[edit] Famous graduates

See also articles in the category ITESM alumni

[edit] Famous faculty members

See also the category Category:Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty

[edit] Criticism

The school has been criticized as unfavoring freedom of speech in several actions that have been condemened by students.

The Institute came under heavy criticism when, according to La Jornada newspaper, Carla Solares Romero, a 17 year old student, asked President Fox what he thought of the inconstitutionality of the desafuero and the lack of respect for her electoral rights. This was during a conference organized in one of the ITESM's campus. Some of the students and faculty defended her, while the event organizers and other faculty members were upset. The director of the Interdisciplinary High School program was overheard saying she should say goodbye to the Tec. This all happened while Carla was isolated in a classroom to prevent her from talking to the press. The event was notorious because of the lack of respect for freedom of speech coming from a university. It should, however, be noted that the girl was not actually a college student but a high school student who was in a high performance program for students who cannot pay the tuition and receive financial help. <ref>http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/04/15/008n1pol.php</ref>

In another event, the school blocked a website developed by students from the Monterrey Campus within its campuses, which included reviews and comments about the faculty posted by other students who had taken courses with them. It was a website similar to the popular ratemyprofessors.com in the United States. The website raptadoporaliens.com was used by students as a guide to choose courses based on these reviews. The Institute argued that these reviews favored students to take courses with professors which reduce the standards of teaching and allowed an easy passing grade, and that such website fostered a reduction of the quality of the education.

Another controversial case was the closing of a popular cultural and critical university magazine Mientras Tanto, financed mostly by the Institute. Problems with editors had been frequent, but the last print is seen as the main cause for the closure. The last print featured a complete page where the magazine criticized the reelection of George W. Bush, claiming the Bush voters were people who thought they lived in a "happy world". Although many thought it was a bad editorial decision to publish such a page, some considered the closing of the magazine an unnecessary action.

[edit] External links

[edit] Campus Monterrey

[edit] Other campuses

[edit] References

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